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This is a wiki dedicated to the lore surrounding Joseph Anderson's Twitch streams. Joseph Anderson is a YouTuber and streamer. On his YouTube channel he makes critiques of video games,[1] and on his Twitch channel he streams himself playing video games.[2] VoDs of his streams can be found on his second YouTube channel.[3] A full list of all of Joe's past streams can be found on the stream index.
Joe also has a Discord server (Joseph Anderson Discord Server, or just JADS for short).[4] In streams when he mentions something called "Dragon's Den", he is referring to the channel by that name in JADS, which acts as a second live chat during streams. JADS was crucial in deciding many of the games which Joe plans to stream in the future, in an event referred to as The Voting Game. Joe's progress through this list of games can be viewed on the stream schedule website.[5]
Joe's community has a tradition of creating lots of fan art of his streams. Every Friday he presents a showcase of all the new fan art via a community-organized website.[6] Joe is often depicted as a dragon in his fan art and his Twitch emotes. This is because the profile picture for his YouTube and Twitch channels is an illustration of a dragon which was used on the cover of one of his books. Since he doesn't show his face in his streams, fan artists took inspiration from his profile picture when depicting him in fan art, and now it's become tradition to draw him as a dragon.
The one prevailing theme of all of Joe's streams is that he doesn't like anime, but his audience does. This dynamic originates from the very beginning of Joe's streaming career. During the first few months of his Twitch channel and his Discord server existing, a significant proportion of his community were weebs to begin with, as is to be expected from groups of terminally-online people. But then two major things happened which gave the weebs in Joe's audience lots of attention and an influx of new members. The first thing is that when he streamed Undertale, he had a memorable moment where he accidentally selected a dialogue option which said that he liked anime.[7] And the second thing is that he decided to stream Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on the day it came out - thinking that it would bring in new viewers who wanted to see what the game was like - without realizing that it was aggressively anime. Both of these things have become infamous in stream lore.
As a result of Joe unintentionally garnering a highly weeb-oriented audience, it has become a running joke for Joe's viewers to try and turn him into a weeb, and for Joe to stubbornly resist this. This dynamic is the reason for various traditions within the community, including the creation of anime girl characters referred to as "Chans", and an ongoing event about trying to get Joe to watch anime which is referred to as The Anime Marble Race.
This category is exclusively for things that originate from past streams that continue to be referenced consistently after their origin point. The purpose of this category is to get new viewers up to speed with these references. This should not become just a collection of stream funny moments.
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Marik BentusiA "chan" is a type of character created for Joe's streams by a fan artist. There are many such characters who often appear in fanart, and the reason why this is even the case is very complicated, so you can read about it on the Chanology page.
The chans category on this wiki only includes ones which have had the same design of them drawn more than once, because otherwise there would be way too many. View All
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